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Originally Posted by Arthurgray50@blu
Here we go again, Have ago at someone who is trying to get decent agreements.
I for one WOULD NOT be a tube driver, no matter what they get paid, can you imagine sitting there for 8 hours, driving a tube train, and then bang someone jumps in front of you, train crashes etc.
What people don't realise, anything can happen in a tunnel, I know its a well paid job and l have done a few, but one thing for certain l would not be and that is driving trains.
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You do realise that only a fraction of tube drivers actually have to deal with the problems you describe, yet they are paid considerably more than the paramedics who can be required to deal with horrors like that a lot more often? (
http://www.prospects.ac.uk/paramedic_salary.htm)
Yes, the job is boring. Probably not that much more boring than driving a bus. A job that attracts an annual salary of £23,000 (
http://www.mysalary.co.uk/average-salary/Bus_Driver_366) . The average salary for a tube driver is going to be £52,000 soon..
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standa...pound-50000.do
What do they do that deserves that salary? Start and stop the train? Deal with stroppy passengers? Deal with injured passengers? Bus drivers do all that and more for half the salary. Do they work long hours? Depends if you call 35 hours a week long. I don't. I call it average.
Personally, as a commuter (although an infrequent user of the tube, I do pay towards it through my travelcard), I think the day when TFL upgrade the trains to driverless operation (similar to the DLR) cannot come soon enough.
Although the unions are being stupid in this. You can bet that while TFL are agreeing to pay these exhorbitant salaries, they are looking for ways to replace the drivers*. Drivers who wont get anywhere near their TFL salary in the private sector.
*You think they can't? The signalling system currently installed on the Jubilee line is apparently a variation on that used on the DLR, so is probably perfectly capable of operating without a driver safely. It wouldn't be too much of a stretch to image that system being installed on other lines as well.